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Old 07-22-2014, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by George Bieniaszek View Post
Yes, totally absurd award!!

They should have settled for $999 Trillion

This is going to be tied up in appeals forever!!
The punitive damages do seem to be extremely excessive especially given what I can see of the facts. I suppose they want to try to bankrupt this company?